Canon 15. Innocence: The Sorceress Blake told you and told you: you never heard.There's only the single speechless word.It verberates your wordy skies,It multiplies your bawdy ground.As sound is unified with word,The Lord is unified with sound. I am She who dances on the faceOf the waters, ignorant of light.Over, ever, harrowing your rock,I dance the clothless customs of the air.I swing my heels in demption's tree,I toss you d … [Read more...]

In one of the preceding essays, I said that a totally committed couple, in the moment of mutual orgasm, may “feel the edge of the ecstasy of a full enlightenment.” In a full enlightenment or awakening, the barrier between the ordinary self and the Deep Mind (I think that’s a more accurate name than “collective unconscious”) vanishes: one feels one's immortality, one's eternal safety, and the ecstasy, an order of magnitude greater than that of the ecstatic couple, that I think is the continual st … [Read more...]